Against advice of
council (Charles), I am re-opening ‘The War Room’ this Sunday at 8am. I know
there are still basically only six of you out there reading what I write, but
I’m optimistic that the ‘War Room’ will be one the features that some of the
old guys back. I’ll post out the topic at 8am on Sunday.
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| Photo by Heather Ainsworth |
We’ve all have sort of run
out of subjects. The few blogs that seem to thrive more than the others are the
ones that keep inventing phantom trades and throwing names against the wall. I
consider this baseball masturbation. The only Mets that someone hasn’t traded
released, or demoted are Ruben Tejada, Matt Harvey,
and Zack Wheeler.
It’s hard to believe
that a team like the Mets can’t recognize how much one team can be reshaped by
one major bat. Look at what Pablo Sandoval is
currently doing for San Francisco. There are a few team shaping free agents I
this off-season market, but the Mets aren’t going to pre-spend any of the new $50mil TV revenue they will begin
to get in 2014. The Mets are not only broke, but they have no borrowing power.
They’ve been shut down by the bean counters and will use that TV money to pay
down debt that already exists. In the long run, this is a good thing, but you
fans are going to suffer through a 3-5 year period where this team will have to
be built via the draft and international free agents. One bright note: The
reduction of the Santana and Bay contract will probably create around an $80mil
team salary for 2014. Add to this the $50mil from the new TV deal and the team
will be back in the black.
Jose Reyes on the Mets signing David Wright long term: “They should sign David. He’s
been the face of the franchise for a long time. If they let him go, that’s
gonna be difficult to see the New York Mets without David Wright. I can’t
imagine that. You never know in this game what’s gonna happen, but I wish all
the best to David. He’s a good friend of mine.” These were very nice words from
an old friend that still should both be playing in the same infield, on the
same team. I never saw a man with a Mets uniform on tilt the field so much when
he was either up or on base.
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| Photo by Mack Ade |
Bleacher Report reports that there ought to be six
Mets on the cutting table in 2013: Jon Rauch, Andres
Torres, Ramon Ramirez, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, and Jason Bay. I don’t agree with the choices of Thole,
Duda, and Bay. You can’t release your catcher unless you have replaced him.
Regarding Bay, the Mets just don’t have enough decent outfielders to compete in
2013 so why release someone you have to pay anyway? Re: Duda, as I have stated
before, I think he’s a long term 25/85 RFer for the Mets. Now, on to the real
people that out to be cut… the entire Bleacher Report web site.
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